MLB Postseason on DISH: Matchups, Schedule and More
Four teams are left, and three of them want nothing more than to knock off the fourth. The Los Angeles Dodgers arrive at the NLCS as the heavyweight: back for a third straight year, an 8th trip in 11 seasons, and a 14th consecutive postseason — a streak that now ties the Braves for the longest ever. Standing in their way is the Milwaukee Brewers, which earned home-field advantage after the best regular season in baseball.
Over in the American League, the top-seeded Tampa Bay Rays won maybe the toughest division in the sport, then swept the New York Yankees in three to reach the ALCS. Their opponent: the Cleveland Guardians, who climbed out of an 0-2 hole against the Chicago White Sox to return to the ALCS for the second time in three years.
Both series are the warm-up to what should be another unforgettable World Series. Here is round-by-round coverage, plus how to watch every remaining game of the 2026 MLB Postseason with DISH.
How to watch the MLB Postseason with DISH
The American League Championship Series will be available on TBS and truTV, while the NLCS will air on FOX, which also carries the World Series. Here is round by round coverage:
Division Series and League Championship Series (TBS, truTV, FOX, FS1): The American League rounds run on TBS and truTV, and the National League rounds run on FOX and FS1 — all carried in America's Top 120, so the same package that gets you the Wild Card round carries these games too.
World Series (FOX): The Fall Classic returns to FOX, available in all DISH packages.
2026 League Championship Series preview
Cleveland Guardians at Tampa Bay Rays
Dodgers-Brewers is the glamour matchup. Guardians-Rays might be the better series. Tampa Bay is a blueprint the rest of the league studies: its best players keep getting dealt to richer teams, and the Rays keep outlasting everyone in the AL East — a division that sent one club to the World Series last year and three more to the postseason this year. The Yankees walked in as the AL favorite and walked out swept in three. Surviving that gauntlet is no small thing.
Cleveland's story might top it. With a payroll under $75 million — the lowest in the majors, more than $20 million below the 28th-ranked Rays — the Guardians are back in the ALCS for the second time in three years. Neither franchise has ever won it all: Tampa Bay fell short in 2008 and 2020, and Cleveland carries the sport's longest title drought at 77 years. Milwaukee's wait runs long too, with no championship and no pennant since 1982. Translation: whoever breaks through, this World Series is set up to make history — and the Dodgers are chasing their own, as a possible third team ever to three-peat.
The ALCS airs on TBS and truTV — watch with DISH in America's Top 120.
Guardians vs. Rays ALCS schedule - All games on TBS/truTV
Game 1: Monday, October 12, 8 PM ET — Guardians 7, Rays 3
Game 2: Tuesday, October 13, 8 PM ET — Guardians 1, Rays 3
Game 3: Thursday, October 15, 6 PM ET — Rays at Guardians — Gavin Williams (CLE) vs. Nick Martinez (TB) (both projected)
Game 4: Friday, October 16, 6 PM ET — Rays at Guardians — TBD vs. Griffin Jax or Ian Seymour (TB, projected)
Game 5: Saturday, October 17, 8 PM ET — Rays at Guardians* — TBD vs. TBD
Game 6: Monday, October 19, 5 PM ET — Guardians at Rays* — TBD vs. TBD
Game 7: Tuesday, October 20, 8 PM ET — Guardians at Rays* — TBD vs. TBD
Los Angeles Dodgers at Milwaukee Brewers
Seven straight postseason losses to Los Angeles — two of them series sweeps — gave Milwaukee plenty of ghosts to exorcise. It took one game to start. In Game 1 on Sunday, Oct 11, the Brewers ground out a 2-1 win, and the result was less upset than reminder: this is the team that finished 2026 with the best record in baseball, the best run differential, and a 4-of-7 edge over the Dodgers in the regular season. Add a franchise-record 103 wins and home-field advantage, and Milwaukee has every reason to believe.
The Dodgers don't deal in belief. Winners of the last two World Series and 13 of the past 14 NL West titles, Los Angeles doesn't need omens to argue it's the best team of its era. The lineup alone makes the case — Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts at the plate, Blake Snell and Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound, trade-deadline arm Tarik Skubal added for October, and Shohei Ohtani doing both. Their real worry isn't Milwaukee; it's a possible 2027 labor stoppage and a cap on that bottomless payroll. The irony: a title for any of the other three clubs would be the best argument for keeping things exactly as they are — so even a loss here might help the Dodgers in the fight to come.
Dodgers vs. Brewers NLDS schedule - All games on FOX or FS1
Game 1: Dodgers 1, Brewers 2
Game 2: Dodgers 4, Brewers 7
Game 3: Wednesday, October 14, 8 PM ET — Brewers at Dodgers — Robert Gasser (MIL) vs. Tarik Skubal (LAD, projected) - Watch with FS1
Game 4: Thursday, October 15, 9 PM ET — Brewers at Dodgers — Jacob Misiorowski (MIL) vs. TBD (both projected) - Watch with FS1
Game 5: Friday, October 16, 9 PM ET — Brewers at Dodgers* — TBD vs. TBD - Watch with FS1
Game 6: Sunday, October 18, 8 PM ET — Dodgers at Brewers* — TBD vs. TBD - Watch with FS1
Game 7: Monday, October 19, 8 PM ET — Dodgers at Brewers* — TBD vs. TBD - Watch with FS1
What comes next in the MLB postseason?
The winners of the LCS series' will advance to the 2026 World Series, which begins Friday, October 23 on FOX.
October is underway, and the road to the World Series only gets tougher from here.
You can follow all of it with DISH, and with the 2-Year TV Price Guarantee, the price you sign up for is the price you keep through two full Postseasons.
